A residential building with a villa on its roof is seen in Beijing's Haidian District, Aug. 12, 2013.

The craggy complex of rooms, rocks, trees and bushes looming over the 26-story building looks like something built into a seaside cliff, and has become the latest symbol of disregard for the law among the rich as well as the rampant practice of building illegal additions.

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A rooftop villa complete with rocks and flora built on top of a high rise residential building stands near a park in Beijing, Aug. 13, 2013.

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A view of the rooftop villa in Beijing, Aug. 12, 2013.

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Rows of villas are seen on the roof top of a shopping center in Hengyang in south China's Hunan province, Aug. 3, 2013.

The developer in the central city of Hengyang recently got into hot water over an illegally built complex of 25 villas on top of a shopping center. He later won permission to keep the villas intact as long as they weren't sold to others.

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A bird flies near a rooftop villa complete with rocks and flora built on top of a high rise residential building in Beijing, Aug. 13, 2013.

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A man looks at a roof top villa with binoculars from an overhead bridge in Beijing, Aug. 13, 2013.

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A rooftop villa complete with rocks and flora built on top of a high rise residential building stands in Beijing, Aug. 13, 2013.